Today I would like to talk about the CNAME record needed to use your own domain on Heroku. If you want to use Heroku to host your website while using 1&1 as a domain provider you might encounter some issues like not to be able to use a custom email address like foo@yourdomain.com. On their documentation page, Heroku asks you to create a CNAME record pointing the subdomain to your app’s…

Before the version 0.4 of Ghost, Heroku wasn't a good choice for a production environment for Ghost. The reason was that the images would be overwritten periodically. But now, Ghost allows us to configure it to go through this problem. Why Heroku ? I choose Heroku for two reasons: First, I had -- when I chose to open this blog -- many other websites already hosted on Heroku, and I wanted to have all my websites…